马克·斯坦恩

马克·斯坦恩（Mark Steyn，1959年12月8日—）是加拿大作家和保守派政治评论员。目前已出版5本书，其中2008年出版的《只剩美国：我们所认知的世界已到末日》（America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Mark Steyn）曾登上纽约时报畅销书榜。他是加拿大公民，现在主要居住在美国新罕布什尔州。已婚，育有三名子女。

政治立场

他是政治上的保守派。

欧洲伊斯兰化

在《只剩美国：我们所认知的世界已到末日》中，他在书中反对大政府、福利国家，支持小政府、自由主义。认为欧洲因为人口减少和经济衰退，将无力延续现有的福利模式。他还指出，欧洲本土人口快速减少，为了防止人口减少，需要外来移民，但穆斯林移民生育率奇高，人口快速增加，又保持穆斯林传统，不融入当地的生活方式，这会导致几十年后欧洲的人口中穆斯林的比重会很高，基督教文明会被伊斯兰教文明取代。他认为相比欧洲，美国的许多人坚持自由主义，因此目前还不会发生这种情况。

反对文化多元主义

他批评以文化多元主义为理由宽容伊斯兰文化，指出伊斯兰文化本身对别的文化并不宽容，而且伊斯兰文化歧视女性。他认为当穆斯林在欧洲取得主导地位后，就不会再理睬欧洲人吹捧的“文化多元”，会限制非穆斯林的宗教与文化，重回“单元文化”。他认为与其被单元的伊斯兰文化取代，倒不如维持单元的西方基督教文化更佳。他认为伊斯兰教是政治性的宗教，而伊斯兰教排他性很强，不愿与其他文明融合，并拒绝与时并进，如果任由伊斯兰文明泛滥，会令人类文明倒退回原始时代，而伊斯兰文明不单是守旧、极端和激进，也记仇，会不择手段对非伊斯兰文明复仇。他希望美国的右派能抵抗伊斯兰，拯救西方文明。

Mark Steyn (born 1959) is a Canadian author and a radio, television, and on-line presenter. He has written several books, including The New York Times bestsellers America Alone, After America, and Broadway Babies Say Goodnight. In the US he has guest-hosted the nationally syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show, as well as Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News, on which he regularly appeared as a guest and fill-in host.

In 2021, Steyn began hosting his own show on British news channel GB News. He left GB News in early February 2023, saying that the channel wanted him to pay fines issued by the UK media regulator Ofcom, which was investigating complaints of COVID-19 vaccination scepticism aired on The Mark Steyn Show. He has since moved his show to his own website.

Early life

Steyn was baptized a Catholic and was later confirmed in the Anglican Church, which he left to become a Baptist. He has stated that "the last Jewish female in my line was one of my paternal great-grandmothers" and that "both my grandmothers were Catholic". His parents were married in Elliot Lake, Ontario. Steyn's great-aunt was artist Stella Steyn. His mother's family was Belgian.

Steyn was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, the same school that author J.R.R. Tolkien attended and where Steyn was assigned a Greek dictionary that had also been used by Tolkien. Although it was reported by The Age in 2006 that Steyn had left school at age 16, his name appears in the King Edward's School yearbook for 1977-78 as a member of "Cl.VI", that is, the "Classics [Upper] 6th form", which is the normal final year for students at that school.

Career

Steyn worked as a disc jockey before becoming musical theatre critic at the newly established The Independent in 1986. He acted as TV critic for Channel 4's breakfast show The Channel 4 Daily and was appointed film critic for The Spectator in 1992. After writing predominantly about the arts, Steyn shifted his focus to political commentary and wrote a column for The Daily Telegraph, a conservative broadsheet, until 2006.

He has written for many publications, including The Washington Post, The Jerusalem Post, Orange County Register, Chicago Sun-Times, National Review, The New York Sun, The Australian, Maclean's, The Irish Times, National Post, The Atlantic, Western Standard, and The New Criterion. He subsequently stepped back from writing and now devotes most of his time to his show.

Steyn's books include Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now, a history of the musical theatre, and the political America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, a New York Times bestseller which predicts the downfall of the West. He has also published collections of his columns and celebrity obituaries, as well as profiles from The Atlantic.

Steyn held a Eugene C. Pulliam Visiting Fellowship in Journalism at Hillsdale College in spring 2013. As of 2010, Steyn was no longer the back-page columnist for the print edition of National Review, conservative writer James Lileks having taken over that space. Steyn's back-page column for National Review, "Happy Warriors", resumed with the issue of March 21, 2011.

Steyn has contributed to the blog Ricochet.com and recorded numerous podcasts with the organization.

From December 2016 to February 2017, Steyn hosted The Mark Steyn Show on the CRTV Digital Network. CRTV abruptly cancelled the show after two months and went to arbitration, with both sides claiming breach of contract. Steyn also sued to keep the show on the air during arbitration, saying it was on behalf of his employees. Former show supervisor Mike Young called this "bullshit" when quoted in The Daily Beast. Former employees provided sworn declarations that Steyn was "incredibly disorganised", tyrannical, and impossible to work with. Steyn was awarded damages for breach of contract, which was confirmed on appeal, as well as attorneys' fees.